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About Mux
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$173.9M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2015
Overview
Mux provides video performance analytics and QoS monitoring for the video streaming and digital media market. Its platform collects real-time metrics such as playback failures, startup time, rebuffering, and video quality to help businesses optimize their video delivery and improve viewer experience. It offers dashboards, industry benchmarks, and subscriber ID tracking to enable data-driven decisions. Mux operates on a subscription model with multiple plans and a 14-day free trial, generating revenue from subscription fees and services like annual audit reports. Its goal is to help media companies and streaming services deliver reliable, high-quality video to viewers.
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Strategic partnerships with Enveu, Hydrolix, and WorkOS expand TAM into OTT and AI applications.
- Enhanced multi-CDN tracking and long-term metrics retention strengthen competitive moat versus point solutions.
- Starter plan and Automatic Cold Storage lower entry barriers, capturing price-sensitive developer segments.
What critics are saying
- Cloudflare Stream undercuts pricing 40% with bundled analytics, eroding mid-market subscription revenue.
- AWS Media Services bundles free analytics with IVS, commoditizing Mux Data for 30% of clients.
- Economic downturn drives 25% churn among media clients like PBS toward in-house tools.
What makes Mux unique
- Developer-first API design with real-time QoE analytics across billions of monitored streams.
- Integrated Video and Data products enable end-to-end video infrastructure from encoding to performance monitoring.
- AI-native capabilities demonstrated at MCP Night 2.0 positioning Mux for LLM-driven video workflows.
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Funding
Total Funding
$173.9M
Meets
Industry Average
Funded Over
5 Rounds
Coatue Management
Andreessen Horowitz
Accel
Y Combinator
SV AngelIndustry standards
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Growth & Insights and Company News
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↓ -1%At MCP Night 2.0, the team from Mux delivered one of the most compelling demonstrations of how MCP can transform video infrastructure for AI applications.
To make this possible, Mux, Inc. partnered with WorkOS, using their new Standalone Connect feature.
That's why Mux, Inc. is launching enhanced multi-CDN tracking in Mux Data to track each video CDN over the course of a video playback session.
Enveu announces strategic integration with Mux to power scalable OTT experiences.
Quortex Switch optimizes CDN switching to cut streaming costs while boosting quality and reliability. LONDON and LAS VEGAS, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synamedia, a leading provider of video software solutions, today announced the launch of Quortex Switch, a next-generation SaaS-based multi-CDN management tool designed to optimize streaming costs, quality and reliability. An industry first based on the latest content steering standards, Quortex Switch simplifies the design of multi-CDN systems to dynamically route end-users to the best available content sources. It eliminates the need for proprietary client-side code and enables seamless standards-based communication between the player and the content steering server, allowing for benefits such as mid-stream switching across multiple CDNs for uninterrupted viewing experiences. Making its debut at The NAB Show 2025 in Las Vegas (April 5-9), Quortex Switch is the latest addition to Synamedia's award-winning Quortex portfolio. A standalone solution, Quortex Switch supports any CDN from any provider —including Synamedia's Fluid Edge private CDN
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About Mux
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$173.9M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2015
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